Jared Kushner

So I go over to see him.

And again, I tell the story.

It was a crazy night and all these different areas.

But when I was talking to him, he basically says to me,

I feel badly for the Palestinian people that they carry with them the burden of the Muslim world.

And that line just like stuck with me.

And a couple of days later, I was thinking about it and I said, wait a minute.

who elected the Palestinian people to represent the Muslim world on the Al-Aqsa Mosque?

And so the reason why I felt like it had never been solved was it was a riddle, A, that I believed was designed to not be solved.

But B, you were conflating two separate issues.

You had the issue between Israel and the Muslim world, which really was the issue of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

And then you had just a territorial dispute, which throughout history, you have lots of territorial disputes and they're usually resolved in different ways.

So, if you go back to the Israeli-Palestinian issue, there's just a couple components you need to solve.

Number one is territorial contiguity, right?

You need to figure out where do you draw the lines, and that's something that, you know, you can talk about what people were owed 70 years ago, but it's much more productive to say this is what you can make work today.

And that's kind of what we did.

We literally spent months and months drawing a map and we put something out, probably changed a couple of lines here and there.

But by and large, it was a very pragmatic solution that I think could work.

And I think it could work for the safety and security of Israel, which was number one.

So first issue is drawing a map.